Decide on a subject you would really like to write a poem about, and write all your ideas - words, lines, phrases, similes - on the slips of paper. Use a new slip of paper for every idea and collect them all in your pot.

When your pot is full, empty out your ideas and treat the slips of paper like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Put your ideas in the order you'd like them to appear in your poem. Play around with the pieces until you are happy with your ordering.

Take the lined piece of paper and, taking each idea in order, expand your words, phrases etc into complete lines.

Check to see if you need to add or take away words so that the lines link.There you have it - your very own poem!

Share your poems in the comment box and I might just be tempted to show you mine.

6 comments:

Wow , i do not believe this. Remember many months back when Taruna and i came home.One of my ideas about a film was on a poet who used to get famous reviews but at home he actually did this "pot" thing !!

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.